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2/n Until 1939, most of the prisoners were put to work building the camp and the living quarters for the SS. The main camp of Mauthausen consisted of 32 barracks surrounded by electrified barbed wire, high stone walls, and watch towers. Due to the immense number of prisoners that 
2/n So as December wore on and snow engulfed the camp and the factory where Levi worked, things both had changed and were the same as always.
2/n Photo: Jews from Liepāja on the dunes of the village of Šķēde, north of Liepāja, where they were murdered, 15-17 December 1941. The 2,750 victims were apprehended in Liepāja; after selection they were brought to Šķēde, where they were marched to ditches dug in the sand. They 
2/n The family knew his singing voice had entertained the guards, and that his musical gift had changed his fate.
2/n ghetto with her family in Hungary (modern-day Romania). In March of that year, Dr. Perl and her husband, son, parents and extended family were sent to Auschwitz, where they were immediately separated. Her young daughter, however, was hidden with a non-Jewish family.
2/n In November 1943, the German 117th Jäger Division began an operation to root out Greek guerrilla fighters in the mountainous area surrounding Kalavryta. During the operation, 77 German soldiers were captured by Greek rebels and killed.
2/n Almost all important party leaders were present to hear Hitler declare the ongoing destruction of the Jewish race, yet it remains less known than the later Wannsee Conference. The announcement Hitler made on 12 December to the Reichsleiter and Gauleiter refers to an earlier
2/n of prisoners to death during selection, and sometimes, he executes the selected prisoners by injections himself and performs experiments on them. He always keeps a straight face; he sends people to their death without mercy. Often, his decision is made only after a fleeting
2/n and continuing through April 15th, 1943. He wrote about a wide variety of subjects of importance to the ghetto residents as they struggled to survive the harsh conditions imposed by lack of food, medicine, and other basic necessities.
2/n Most pregnant women at Auschwitz were simply sent to the gas chambers. Women who found out they were pregnant at the camp were sometimes given abortions. Often, when women were discovered to be pregnant they were summarily executed. When Leszczyńska heard what was expected of
2/n It operated three gas vans using carbon monoxide. The camp began operations on December 7, 1942, and ended on March 1943. It resumed operations June 23, 1944, and finally ceased operations January 17, 1945. The estimated number of deaths is 150-300,000, mainly Jews. 
2/n Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by order of Adolf Hitler. It was in France, during the autumn of 1941, that Hitler found a political pretext to justify his new measures, when a series of attacks were aimed at the German army on French soil. Thus, when the German police arrested
2/n a certain Jan Zwartendijk in the Lithuanian capital Kaunas. In addition to director of the Philips Lithuania branch, the Dutchman has recently also become deputy consul. Isaac and Pessla want to leave for fear of the advancing Nazis and Soviets. They cannot apply for a visa 
2/n Picked out because he had once been a photographer, Brasse was set to work for the Auschwitz Identification Service. The job was simple enough: men and women would line up outside the studio each morning, accompanied by a kapo — inmates who were often just as brutal as their 
2/n Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, Jewish microbiologist Ludwik Fleck conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
2/n themselves back home in Kovno. On 18 January 1942, about 6 months after their relocation to the Kovno ghetto, Tzipporah and Dov had a baby girl. They named her Hinda, after Tzipporah’s mother. In late November 1943,
a diary in which he expressed his feelings. The texts survived as he regularly sent the notebooks home. In his notes, Hosenfeld emphasized his growing outrage at the oppression of the Poles by the regime, the persecution of the Polish clergy, the mistreatment of the Jews and, 
2/n symbol of resistance and courage during dark times. After their flight to Belgium in July 1939, they later had to flee to France during the German invasion. When they returned to Antwerp in 1940, they discovered that their house had been looted.
2/n people. Adolf Hitler initiated the program in 1939, and, while it was officially discontinued in 1941, killings continued covertly until the military defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
2/n functionaries and the criminal elements, because regular inmates, penniless and emaciated, were usually too debilitated and wary of exposure to SS schemes. In the end, the camp brothels did not not produce any noticeable increase in the prisoners' work productivity
2/n Camp Amersfoort was originally intended as a transit camp, where prisoners could be temporarily housed before deportation to Germany. But the camp also served as a punishment- and labor camp. A total of 20,200 prisoners were transported from Amersfoort to camps in Germany. 